IoB Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Built Environment (SBE): Understanding the Complexity and Contributing to Energy Efficiency; A Case Study in Mediterranean Climates by Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Enrique Cano Suñén, Álvaro Marco Marco, Ángel Fernández Cuello

“…The derived conclusions show that IoT-driven solutions allow the generation of real-data-based models on which to enhance SBE knowledge, by increasing energy efficiency and guaranteeing user comfort while minimising environmental effects and economic impact.…”
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Exploring forest rehabilitation and restoration: A brief systematic review by Mthokozisi Ndumiso Mzuzuwentokozo Buthelezi, Romano Trent Lottering, Kabir Yunus Peerbhay, Onisimo Mutanga

“…These approaches require context-specific planning and consideration of various factors outlined in existing literature. …”
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A Bibliometric Research on Food Market Shifts. Challenges for Actors in the Food Chain by Corina Ionela Dumitrescu, Mirona Ana Maria Ichimov, Nicoleta Niculescu, Iuliana Grecu

“…The present paper aims to analyse the current state of research carried out on changes and new trends in the food market, at a global level. …”
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Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Vaccination: Assessing Safety, Efficacy, and Synergistic Potential by Jacob New, Luke Shenton, Radia Ksayer, Justin Wang, Karam Zakharia, Laura J. Nicholson, Amitabh C. Pandey

“…As ICIs gain broader clinical application, the relevance of current vaccination guidelines for cancer patients—largely developed in the context of cytotoxic therapies—becomes increasingly uncertain. …”
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Design and Evaluation of Environmental Value Mechanisms for Green Power Considering Carbon Reductions by Yan Lu, Mengmeng Zhang, Lei An, Pengyun Geng, Lili Liu, Tiantian Feng

“…Under the global context of addressing climate change and actively promoting energy transition, green power has become increasingly vital in the energy structure due to its clean and sustainable advantages. …”
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A classifier-assisted evolutionary algorithm with knowledge transfer for expensive multitasking problems by Min Hu, Zhigang Ren, Zhirui Cao, Yifeng Guo, Haitao Sun, Hongyao Zhou, Yu Guo

“…However, due to the scarcity of training samples, the prediction accuracy of frequently-used regression surrogate models can hardly be guaranteed as the difficulty of the problem increases, resulting in performance degradation of the whole algorithm. …”
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From humans to algorithms: A sociotechnical framework of workplace surveillance by Oliver G. Kayas, Chin Eang Ong, H.M. Belal

“…Current frameworks also underplay the influence of digital technology and fail to account for the impact modern digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence algorithms, have on shaping the characteristics of surveillance. …”
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Benefits of a near-peer program from the tutors’ perspective: a survey of Australian junior doctors in a regional teaching program by David Medveczky, Alicia Mitchell, Eleonora Leopardi, Amanda Dawson

“…Methods Current and past NPMT tutors participated in an online survey from October 2022 to April 2023. …”
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Attitudes and Behaviors of Nurses and Nursing Students Toward Patients with Obesity: A Systematized Review by Yaiza-María Arvelo-Rodríguez, Cristo-Manuel Marrero-González, Alfonso-Miguel García-Hernández

“…<b>Background</b>: The prevalence of people with obesity is increasing worldwide, facing challenges in terms of discrimination and prejudice across all settings, including healthcare. …”
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Recent developments in the utilization of unconventional resources: A focus on partial upgrading techniques and sustainability of Canadian Oil sand bitumen by Moataz K. Abdrabou, Xue Han, Yimin Zeng, Ying Zheng

“…To satisfy the increasing global energy demand, while searching for new energy sources, it's important to take a closer look at the resources already at our disposal and optimize their use. …”
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SCAT: Shift Channel Attention Transformer for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution by Yingdong Kang, Xuemin Zhang, Shaoju Wang, Guang Jin

“…The quadratic increase in computational complexity caused by global receptive fields has been a persistent challenge when applying Transformer-based methods in remote sensing image super-resolution (RSISR), involving high-resolution images. …”
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Impact of anthropogenic landscape transformation on soil fertility and diversity of carabid beetles and butterflies in Poland by Katarzyna Szyszko-Podgórska, Joanna Ukalska, Krzysztof Ukalski, Marek Kondras

“…In addition, the study sought to determine how the history of land use affects the current soil properties and community structure of the organisms in different types of ecosystems. …”
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Roots of resistance: Unraveling microbiome-driven plant immunity by Dhananjaya Pratap Singh, Sudarshan Maurya, Lovkush Satnami, Renu, Ratna Prabha, Birinchi K. Sarma, Nagendra Rai

“…This interaction is particularly relevant in the context of climate change, where plants face increasing biotic and abiotic stresses. …”
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Biodegradable film development by nisin Z addition into hydroxypropylmethylcellulose matrix for mozzarella cheese preservation by Pedro A. V. Freitas, Rafael R. A. Silva, Taíla V. de Oliveira, Raquel R. A. Soares, Nilda F. F. Soares

“…Currently, improvement of food preservation has been a substantial challenge for industries to increase shelf-life of products and to maintain food quality during storage. …”
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Development of a hydrogel-based three-dimensional (3D) glioblastoma cell lines culture as a model system for CD73 inhibitor response study by Marjan Bahraminasab, Samira Asgharzade, Ali Doostmohamadi, Atefeh Satari, Farkhonde Hasannejad, Samaneh Arab

“…GBM cells treated with CD73 inhibitors significantly decreased the proliferation rate and expression of VEGF and HIF1-α in the optimal hydrogel. …”
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Assessing Immunization Coverage and the Negative Impact of Local Vaccine Production Cessation in Ecuador by Esteban Ortiz-Prado, Lissette Carolina Villacreses-Brito, Jorge Vasconez-Gonzalez, Cristina Anabel Jacome, Marlon Arias-Intriago, Juan S. Izquierdo-Condoy

“…For BCG, median coverage decreased from 100% during the production period to 87.8% post-cessation (<i>p</i> < 0.0001). …”
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Investigating the Therapeutic Effects of Albendazole, Mebendazole, and Praziquantel Nanocapsules in Hydatid Cyst-Infected Mice by Nooshinmehr Soleymani, Soheil Sadr, Cinzia Santucciu, Abbas Rahdar, Giovanna Masala, Hassan Borji

“…Drug resistance is the main challenge in treating parasitic diseases, including cystic echinococcosis (CE). Hence, the current study aims to investigate the effect of nanocapsules containing albendazole (ABZ), mebendazole (MBZ), and praziquantel (PZQ) on treating hydatid cysts in mice using these high-potency drugs. …”
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Insight into influence of degradation metabolism of Firmicutes on the microstructure of anthracite coal by Yuewu Wang, Bingjun Liu, Sheng Xue, Yang Yang, Jian Chen, Jingbei Zhang, Chunshan Zheng, Tianyao Zhou

“…Also, the relative abundance of a number of key metabolic enzyme genes capable of catalyzing the oxygen-containing functional groups into the structure of the coal molecule and the de-cyclization reaction were increased. …”
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Climate science for 2050 by Guy Brasseur, Guy Brasseur, Detlef Stammer, Pierre Friedlingstein, Pierre Friedlingstein, Gabriele Hegerl, Tiffany Shaw, Kevin Trenberth, Kevin Trenberth, Jadwiga Richter, Carolina Vera, André Berger, Helen Cleugh, Steve Easterbrook, Paul Edwards, Daniela Jacob, Michael Mann, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Gavin Schmidt, Mary Scholes, Thomas Stocker, Martin Visbeck, Guoxiong Wu

“…Finally, we speculate about the values and ethics of climate science and the nature of climate research in a world that will be increasingly affected by global warming in a geopolitical context very different from that of recent decades.…”
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Empowerment in structures. Practical-ethical considerations of the preconditions for technology-assisted dementia care in Germany based on an expert-interview study by Johannes Welsch, Silke Schicktanz

“…Thematic content analysis was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe experts’ assessments of the current preconditions for TADC in Germany were starkly ambivalent. …”
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